Re: A Trial Balloon to Ban Encryption?

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From: William Unruh
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 19:25

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hal@cco.caltech.edu (Hal Finney) writes:
>....  The government never tried to get us to "escrow" our
>DES keys, for some reason.  Maybe they didn't need to; maybe the rumors
>that the government could break DES were true all along.  Otherwise why
>is this idea appearing now instead of fifteen years ago?

Because before only banks etc could afford the computers mecessary, now
anyone at all can, and the techniques are almost public knowledge.

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